Okay, here’s my fantasy.  It’s 1950 and I’m a seven-year-old kid living on a backwoods farm in West Virginia and I have acquired an invisible (to everyone but me) and unloseable Treo 700p connected to today’s web.  Any piece of future information on the web up to today is available to me, including the results of horse races, historical stock prices, and the telephone numbers of security at Logan Airport and the Boston FBI. 

Google has just made my fantasy much more attractive by introducing Google News Archive Search, an incredible new marvel that searches hundreds of news sources going back for 200 years in some cases.  There is even a timeline feature that allows you to search by specific decade.  This is, by far, I would guess the biggest opening into the “dark Web” which is information in databases that cannot be “spidered,” or indexed, by standard search engines.  

Did you know the Duke of Windsor attended the 1951 Kentucky Derby which was won by a horse called Ponder?